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By BRUCE MADEJ
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DETROIT---Talk about throwbacks.
Andrew Tate’s flying start for Saturday Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Hydrofest President’s Cup championship final heat was reminiscent of the late, great hydroplane driver Bill Muncey. Muncey was known for great, flying starts as he blew by the opponents to go on and win a race.

By BRUCE MADEJ
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DETROIT---Jimmy Shane knew he had the team and boat to make some noise at the Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Hydrofest and when he did put it all together, Shane came home with the most prestigious trophy of the weekend. Shane in the U-1 Miss Homestreet/Miss Madison made a perfect start in the five-lap championship final heat from lane two and then ran away from the field to capture to the oldest active trophy in all of the motorsports—the APBA Gold Cup for the team’s third win in four years.

By TODD POLLOCK
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Last Friday night the Trimble County High School Raiders football team hosted Shawnee High School and claimed their first victory of the young football season with a 53-18 shellacking of the Golden Eagles.

By TODD POLLOCK
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Trimble County Youth League Football opened their season at the Trimble County High School on Saturday August 12, 2017 against the Tigers from Bracken County. The teams are divided up into three groups consisting of ages of 8U, 10U, and 12U. The “U” stands for under.

By ANDREW MUNTZ
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Seattle---Jimmy Shane in the U-1 Miss HomeStreet/Miss Madison and Andrew Tate in the U-9 Les Schwab Tires battled side by side through the final lap of a wild Albert Lee Appliance Cup winner-take-all final heat on Lake Washington. Tate, the winner of last year’s Seattle race, managed to pass Shane on the last lap and again in the final stretch, but it turned out to be all for naught. Tate was assessed a one-minute penalty for dislodging a buoy before the start.

By KRISTIN BECK
The Trimble Banner
After eight years of combined experience being a middle school head coach and high school assistant coach, Vanita Fogle was ready to take the reigns as TCHS volleyball head coach after her mentor, Ruth Staples, retired.
“I love Trimble County volleyball, and I want us to continue to be successful,” she said.

By ANDREW MUNTZ
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TRI-CITIES, Wash.--J. Michael Kelly, driver of the U-12 Graham Trucking, started outside of most of the other competitors on the Columbia River Sunday, beat them to the first turn, and ran away to victory in the winner-take-all final heat of the 2017 HAPO Columbia Cup for Unlimited hydroplanes in the Tri-Cities, Washington. The U-3 Grigg’s Ace Hardware finished second, the defending champion U-1 Miss HomeStreet/Miss Madison was third, and the U-9 Les Schwab Tires was fourth.

By DAVE TAYLOR
The Trimble Banner
The H1 Unlimited hydroplane fleet will contest the HAPO Columbia Cup on the Columbia River in the Tri-Cities, Wash., this weekend.
The Tri-Cities event will be the first points race of the season and eight of the big boats are expected to be in attendance.
With Madison electing to pay H1 for only four boats to compete for the Indiana Governor’s Cup earlier this month, the local race did not earn points races for the hydros which competed in a series of match races and a final.

By Josh Moore
Lexington Herald-Leader
Protective face masks will be mandatory for high school softball pitchers, first basemen and third basemen in Kentucky beginning with the 2018 season.
The KHSAA adopted the new requirement as part of its first organized meeting of the 2017-18 school year in Covington. The change makes Kentucky the first state to require protective headgear in high school softball.